An ancient comb with engraved and openwork decorations of an ancient coat of arms iconography with the Anglo-Saxon lion and unicorn. Indeed, some Ebrié or Attié families jealously kept in their family treasures old combs with Christian iconography or as here related to the English crown, emblem of power, which testifies here doubly of its antiquity and its location.

Akan, Attié or Ebrié, Ghana or Ivory Coast 

Ivory, superb and old patina of use. 

H. 11,3 cm



Provenance :

Collection Nadine Vinot-Postry, Paris.
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Lot no. 94

An ancient comb with engraved and openwork decorations of an ancient coat of arms iconography with the Anglo-Saxon lion and unicorn. Indeed, some Ebrié or Attié families jealously kept in their family treasures old combs with Christian iconography or as here related to the English crown, emblem of power, which testifies here doubly of its antiquity and its location. Akan, Attié or Ebrié, Ghana or Ivory Coast Ivory, superb and old patina of use. H. 11,3 cm Provenance : Collection Nadine Vinot-Postry, Paris.

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€768
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An ancient comb with engraved and openwork decorations of an ancient coat of arms iconography with the Anglo-Saxon lion and unicorn. Indeed, some Ebrié or Attié families jealously kept in their family treasures old combs with Christian iconography or as here related to the English crown, emblem of power, which testifies here doubly of its antiquity and its location. Akan, Attié or Ebrié, Ghana or Ivory Coast Ivory, superb and old patina of use. H. 11,3 cm Provenance : Collection Nadine Vinot-Postry, Paris.
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